Educated Youth in the Countryside: She is the Village's Embroidery Queen!-Chapter 293: Why Should Men Be Good-Looking?

Chapter 293: Chapter 293: Why Should Men Be Good-Looking?

Sister-in-law Qi is a woman of action, and since the Qi Family is just next door, it took her only two or three minutes to go home and come back with the measurements.

Yi Chichi took them and glanced at them, understanding what to do.

"What kind of style do you want?"

Sister-in-law Qi was taken aback again, "Are there many styles to choose from?"

"There are plenty on the street."

Every unit has different work uniforms, and the styles of shirts vary too.

Fake collars are quite trendy.

With that hint, Sister-in-law Qi began recalling the clothes workers wore on the street.

As soon as she started recalling, she realized a horrifying fact—she couldn’t remember any of those styles.

Lack of imagination.

Feeling helpless, she could only go home and bring Old Qi’s tattered shirt, saying, "Cut it according to this."

Yi Chichi thought it was fine, took the shirt, spread it out, gave it a glance, then handed it back to her and got to work.

Sister-in-law Qi stood beside Yi Chichi, wanting to learn a bit.

From her experience at tailor shops, she knew that tailors usually outlined lines before cutting.

But contrary to the usual method, Yi Chichi picked up the scissors and started cutting directly.

Her eyes widened in shock, and before she could say anything to stop her, the cutting sound had already begun.

Having no other option, she could only swallow her words back, adhering to the principle of trusting those you’re employing, and watched silently as Chichi cut a whole piece of fabric into several sections.

Aside from the sound of scissors cutting fabric, there were no other sounds in the room.

Time ticked by, and Yi Chichi put down the scissors, saying, "Done."

Sister-in-law Qi, "...Is it done?"

Her expression was a bit conflicted. Yi Chichi nodded, "Yes, it’s done. All you need to do is sew it together based on how I’ve cut it."

At this point, she asked, "Do you have a sewing machine?"

"Yes,"

Sister-in-law Qi nodded, but looked troubled. Seeing this, Yi Chichi had a bad feeling, "Don’t tell me you can’t use a sewing machine."

"I can use it, it’s just that, just that..."

Glancing at the cut fabric on the table, she said helplessly, "I can’t understand this."

She had only been mending clothes before and had never made a complete piece of clothing independently.

Yi Chichi’s task seemed too difficult for her.

"I’ll teach you."

Thinking it wasn’t a big deal, Yi Chichi took the fabric pieces and began explaining to her which piece was the front, which was the back, which was the collar, and which was the sleeve.

She then concluded, "In short, just sew them together in sequence."

"What about buttonholes?"

"Edge binding."

Holding true to the principle of seeing a task through to the end, Yi Chichi also taught her in detail how to edge bind.

Whether she learned it or not, she couldn’t tell, but Sister-in-law Qi felt it wasn’t difficult after listening, and she could do it.

Then, Sister-in-law Qi, feeling confident, thanked her and took the fabric back to get to work.

That evening, Mr. Qi came home from work, wearing his new clothes, and joyfully showed off to Wen Shi.

"Old Wen, look at the new clothes my wife made for me."

Wen Shi, "???."

Is this guy a bit ill?

He acted as if his wife couldn’t make clothes.

He rolled his eyes, "You’re ugly. New clothes on you are a complete waste of the outfit."

Next door, Lin Qiu Ping came out with a bowl of rice, and upon hearing this, burst out laughing, spewing rice.

Mr. Qi was annoyed, "You’re the good-looking one, right? The most handsome on the whole island! Criticizing me for being ugly, what does a man need to be pretty for?"

"Everyone likes pretty things!"

The one speaking was the little friend, Qi Xiaohui. This kid also knew how to poke where it hurt. When his father glared at him, it didn’t scare him; instead, it sparked his rebellious nature.

He chattered rapidly, "If only you were a bit prettier, a bit more handsome, I wouldn’t feel embarrassed taking you out."

The tone was one of disappointment and regret.

Mr. Qi nearly coughed up blood, feeling that while in other families, elders took pride in taking youngsters out, theirs was the reverse, with the youngster feeling embarrassed with him.

"What are you even learning at school?"

He was utterly confused and couldn’t figure out what the school teachers were actually teaching the children.

Qi Xiaohui thought for a bit, "Just the usual classes."

However other kids attended class, they did the same.

He learned a lot of knowledge, but felt none of it was useful.

But it didn’t matter, "Dad, I told you already, studying isn’t important, especially since I want to join the field army when I grow up."

He had quite some ambition.

Wen Shi gave him a thumbs-up, "Kid, you’re better than your dad."

Old Qi glared at him, "Stop instigating. I just got transferred from the field army."

Otherwise, how would his youngster know about the field army?

"Join the Second Artillery Corps."

Lin Qiu Ping, who had spewed rice before, strolled over with a bowl, suggesting to Qi Xiaohui, "The Second Artillery Corps has big weapons."

Yi Chichi thought, this one’s really reckless.

The kid was probably confused.

Sure enough, when she looked at Qi Xiaohui’s face, she noticed he was scrunching it up, saying, "But I want to join the field army, what should I do?"

"No matter where you aim to go, studying well is the proper path to success."

She spoke soothingly, "You’re still young now. Your main task is to study. If you don’t do well in school, forget about the field army, you won’t get into any place."

Times were advancing, society was progressing, and the further along, the higher the demands of the military on its soldiers.

The future belonged to the information age.

And the military would also be moving towards informatization.

Education would become the first barrier to joining the military.

Qi Xiaohui sighed, "But learning isn’t fun."

"Are you saying you’ve been going to school just to play?" Old Qi, realizing this was his youngster’s true inner thought, felt completely disheartened.

"Not really, but what the teachers teach is too easy, and I learn it immediately."

Wen Shi got serious, "Really? You learn it all right away?"

"Really, Uncle. You can test me."

"Okay, I’ll test you."

Then, Wen Shi took out pen and paper and started testing him, with questions from easy to difficult, and he answered the first few smoothly with a 100% correctness rate.

But he got stuck on the fifth question.

"We haven’t learned this yet."

Wen Shi glanced at Yi Chichi with a chuckle, "Honey, why don’t you explain how to solve this problem and why it’s done this way?"

Old Qi and the others looked over, and Qi Xiaohui stared hopefully at her.

Yi Chichi felt sweat forming on her forehead, "Why don’t you do it yourself?"

"I’m only good at solving problems, not teaching them."

He had spoken with complete conviction.

It left Yi Chichi feeling helpless, as if she was supposed to be the expert here.

But what could she do? She had to help her man save face.

"Alright, I’ll explain."

Then she took on the role of a problem-solving teacher, first reading the problem to clarify the requirements and disentangle the problem’s structure.

She then guided Qi Xiaohui to think using the problem’s given conditions and round-number conditions, using his existing knowledge to solve it.

The child was smart and good at drawing inferences, and soon used his current knowledge system to solve the problem.

The method was a bit clumsy, calculating step by step, but that was normal, as, with his existing knowledge system, he hadn’t learned many formulas yet.